{"id":100203,"date":"2021-06-27T02:21:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100203"},"modified":"2021-06-27T02:28:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:28:03","slug":"what-if-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/what-if-3\/","title":{"rendered":"What If?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">How would things be<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">If<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">There was no rain?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Parched and cracky and dusty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Pleading for mercy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And all their tears, wasted and dry<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Would fill not a babe&#8217;s mouth<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Not all their shrieks and suffering<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">All ribs splitting and cracking<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And lips cracked and dreams<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Cracked and shattered<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Would burst open the clouds<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Or bless them with mercy, with rain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And all the water flowing and wasting<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Smelly and dirtied<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Coloured and sullied<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">With leaves and flowers and corpses<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">With ash and bleeding starkness<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">All the waves raging and breaking<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Will not grant a gentle wave<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Of liquid water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would things be If There was no rain? Parched and cracky and dusty Pleading for mercy And all their tears, wasted and dry Would fill not a babe&#8217;s mouth Not all their shrieks and suffering All ribs splitting and cracking And lips cracked and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100351,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100203\/revisions\/100351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}